{"id":31757,"date":"2014-10-03T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=31757"},"modified":"2014-10-03T23:36:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T22:36:26","slug":"alan-henning-killed-islamic-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/alan-henning-killed-islamic-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Henning ‘killed by Islamic State’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mr Henning was delivering aid to Syria when he was kidnapped, as Paul Wood reports<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The Salford taxi driver was delivering aid to Syria in December when he was kidnapped and then held hostage by IS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

IS had threatened to kill the 47-year-old in footage showing the death of Briton David Haines last month.<\/p>\n

David Cameron said Britain would do all it could “to hunt down these murderers and bring them to justice”.<\/p>\n

The prime minister said the killing of the married aid worker who has two children showed “how barbaric and repulsive” IS was.<\/p>\n

“My thoughts and prayers tonight are with Alan’s wife Barbara, their children and all those who loved him,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Alan had gone to Syria to help get aid to people of all faiths in their hour of need.”<\/p>\n

Mr Henning’s wife Barbara had this week appealed for her husband’s release, saying: “He is innocent.”<\/p>\n

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IS has previously released videos showing the apparent beheadings of two US journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and British aid worker Mr Haines.<\/p>\n

The video released on Friday is yet to be verified, but it appears to show Mr Henning kneeling beside a militant, dressed in black, in a desert setting.<\/p>\n

The footage ends with an IS fighter threatening a man they identify as Peter Kassig.<\/p>\n

‘British accent’<\/span><\/p>\n

BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera said the footage was similar to previous videos released by IS, though slightly shorter.<\/p>\n

He said it included a reference to last week’s vote by UK Parliament to authorise air strikes against IS in Iraq.<\/p>\n

Like previous videos it features a militant with an apparently British accent, he added.<\/p>\n

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The UK Foreign Office said in a statement: “We are aware of the video and are working urgently to verify the contents.<\/p>\n

“If true, this is a further disgusting murder.<\/p>\n

“We are offering the family every support possible; they ask to be left alone at this time.”<\/p>\n

The US said it was evaluating the video and if proved real, it was “another demonstration of the brutality” of the militant group.<\/p>\n

\"Grey<\/div>\n

Analysis<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Alan<\/div>\n

Frank Gardner, security correspondent, BBC News<\/span><\/p>\n

This latest murder video from the jihadists who call themselves Islamic State is likely to dismay and disgust even many of those who disapprove of western military action against IS.<\/p>\n

While countless Muslims have already condemned the extreme and graphic violence of IS, the case of Alan Henning struck a special chord with his many Muslim friends.<\/p>\n

He had given up Christmas with his family to deliver aid to Syrians in need, only to end up in the hands of his eventual murderers.<\/p>\n

Even individuals who the UK government suspected of extremist leanings had pleaded for his release.<\/p>\n

The fact that their pleas fell on deaf ears may now possibly convince others sympathetic to IS that their actions are beyond the pale.<\/p>\n

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The Muslim Council of Britain condemned the killing.<\/p>\n

Secretary General Dr Shuja Shafi\u00a0tweeted<\/a>: “Saddened by reported murder of Alan Henning. A despicable and offensive act. He helped Muslims. My thoughts and prayers with his family.”<\/p>\n

Earlier this week Mrs Henning had asked for “mercy” for her husband, saying his family was continuing their attempts to communicate with the group.<\/p>\n

She also she had received an audio message of her husband pleading for his life.<\/p>\n

“Muslims across the globe continue to question Islamic State over Alan’s fate,” she said.<\/p>\n

\"BarbaraBarbara Henning had made a direct appeal to IS for her husband to be freed<\/span><\/div>\n

Mrs Henning had said some people thought her husband was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but she said: “He was in the right place doing the right thing.”<\/p>\n

She said her family was “at a loss” as to why IS leaders could not “open their hearts and minds to the truth about Alan’s humanitarian motives for going to Syria”.<\/p>\n

Last month, two high-profile imams in the UK made a direct appeal to IS to release Mr Henning.<\/p>\n

Holding him captive is “totally haram [forbidden]” under Islamic law, the clerics said.<\/p>\n

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Imam Qari Assim says the apparent murder of Alan Henning is “despicable” and “beggars belief”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Earlier on Friday, the father of another hostage, British journalist John Cantlie,\u00a0appealed for him to be released<\/a>\u00a0“to those he loves and who love him”.<\/p>\n

The journalist, who was kidnapped in Syria in 2012, has so far appeared in three videos in which he has delivered scripted messages responding to military attacks on IS.<\/p>\n

\"JohnJohn Cantlie was kidnapped in Syria in 2012<\/span><\/div>\n

RAF Tornados first hit IS targets on Tuesday, four days after Parliament authorised UK involvement in the military campaign.<\/p>\n

The aircraft have been conducting daily flights over Iraq, and carrying out air strikes against vehicles and weapons positions to assist Kurdish ground forces.<\/p>\n

The UK is among the nations that have joined forces to tackle the militant group, which has seized large parts of Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n

IS has declared a so-called caliphate in the areas it has taken, and is also holding a number of hostages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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